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D/S Germa To Germa on the "Ships starting with G" page. Owner: Skibs-A/S Germa Built by Harland & Wolff, Ltd., Belfast, delivered in July-1920 as Boswell to Liverpool Brazil & River Plate Steam Navigation Co. (Lamport & Holt), Liverpool. Renamed Adderstone in 1934 for White Shipping Co, Newcastle. Sold in 1937 to Skibs.A/S Germa (Johan Gerrard jr.), Kristiansand and renamed Germa. Captain: Olaf Gerrard.
Germa experienced the battle of Convoy SL 125 in Oct.-1942, along with D/S Alaska and Belnor, but escaped unharmed. 12 ships were sunk, Alaska was damaged (my page about Alaska has more info, as do the external links provided below). In June the following year she was one of several Norwegian ships sailing in the slow Convoy SC 134, which departed Halifax for the U.K. on June 16-1943. She had previously been cancelled from the faster convoy HX 243, leaving New York on June 7. A couple of months later, on Sept. 3-1943 we find her in station 64 of Convoy SC 141. The following month she made a voyage to Italy. This is possible to determine from the 2nd external website that I've linked to at the end of this text, which has Germa in Convoy OS 57/KMS 31, leaving Liverpool on Oct. 27-1943, on a voyage from Clyde to Italy with ether, vehicles and stores in station 72. Germa was in the Gibraltar portion of the convoy (KMS 31) which arrived there on Nov. 10. Follow the link for more details. (The Gibraltar portion will also be added to my own site in due course). In Jan.-1944 she shows up in the Alexandria portion of Convoy MKS 37, voyage Bizerta-Algiers. In June/July that same year she's listed in Convoy HX 297 from New York, bound for Methil and London with a cargo of sugar. In the middle of Nov. that year we find her in the slow Halifax-U.K. Convoy SC 161, carrying sugar and general for Liverpool. Follow the links to my Convoys section for more on these convoys - as will be seen, several Norwegian ships sailed in them.
Owned in 1951 by Wallem & Co, Panama. Renamed Norway Maru in 1951 for Dai-ichi Kisen K.K., Kobe. Owned from 1960 by Dai-ichi Chuo K.K, Kobe, and from 1965 by Fujita Kaiji Kogyo K.K, Osaka. Scrapped at Sakai in 1970. Related external links: SL convoys and OS and OS/KMS Convoys - As can be seen, Germa is listed in Convoy SL 125 and OS 57/KMS 31, as are a number of other Norwegian ships. Back to Germa on the "Ships starting with G" page. Norway had another Germa post war, originally delivered as Olav Ringdal in 1965 and managed by Olav Ringdal, Oslo. Sold to Arendal in 1970 and renamed Claro, then renamed Germa in June-1974 for A/S Gerrards Rederi, Kristiansand. Later sailed as Al Tajdar for owners in Monrovia from 1979, broken up in 1985. The text on this page was compiled with the help of: E-mails from Roger W. Jordan - and misc.
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